Archive for the 'The New York Times' Category

frozen fish

Tuesday, January 12th, 2010

Florida never ceases to amaze me.  Just when I think I have been around long enough to know my state, a story comes along that make me go, “really?”  That happened when I got a call from The New York Times last week about tropical fish farming being hit hard by the recent freeze we’ve [...]

warm light, cold night

Thursday, January 7th, 2010

Man, ever since I left Colorado, I think my blood has thinned and I have absolutely no tolerance for the cold anymore.
I was sent up to Dover to photograph the freezing temps here in Florida for The New York Times at 5:00am, pretty crazy watching the sun come up over a completely iced over G [...]

sperm banks

Friday, October 2nd, 2009

Check out the work of Michael Rubenstein - especially his recent piece on Sperm Banks in Mumbai, which was featured on The New York Times LENS blog yesterday.  The look into the quite sterile, yet beautifully perverse office is like none other.  While you’re at it click on the foreclosure series as well in his [...]

red, white, and ewwwww

Monday, September 28th, 2009

Unfortunately for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, this season is looking a lot like Detroit’s last year.
Fortunately for me, New York teams always find their way down here, which gives me the opportunity to scoop up some New York Times work.  They also happen to wear blue and that color coming into the red-saturated stadium that [...]

backyard travel

Friday, September 4th, 2009

I always find it ironic that I get all excited when the Travel editor calls from The New York Times and asks if I’m available.  I always say “of course,” hope for some far off land, and then I get the punchline: “We’re doing a story on Siesta Key.”  It’s great, don’t get me wrong, [...]

mmm-mmm…that is a tasty burger

Wednesday, July 29th, 2009

So it goes that when I get a travel piece on local restaurants for The New York Times in my backyard, the week is deluged with rain…oh well.  I had to make do with what I could during the stormy weather waiting it out in my car in hopes that vacationers would resurface as the [...]